Diet

We're inundated with tips and systems to lose weight, but advice on keeping it off is harder to find. Perhaps that's because the current recommendation is to basically stay the course: stick with your plan, we're told, and the weight will stay off. But researchers surveyed more than 1,000 people who lost weight, and found the keys to success — no matter what your goal. It turns out that losing weight and keeping it off require separate skills.

Have you had the experience of gaining back what you lost — and more — after ending a strict diet? Find out why it happens and what you can do to prevent it

Eating might be giving you a high – literally, according to a new study that showed rats fed high-fat diets produced a response similar to what happens when you use marijuana. (Interestingly, they also tested sugar and protein, but didn’t find the same reaction.) The chemical the high-fat diet produced helps regulate mood, stress and appetite.

One new study seems to show that Weight Watchers works better than going to your doctor for weight loss advice — but that doesn't mean it's the right plan for everyone.

Last Sunday I was listening to The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright and he interviewed Gary Taubes, whose books Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories show him to be a devoted disciple of the controversial Atkins-style low-carb diets.